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961.
by hakfoo 4y ago
I suppose that reveals something: cheap virtualization completely changes the OS development experience. Even beyond teaching toys, there are huge projects now (SerenityOS for example) where "runs on bare metal" is barely, or not
962.
by hakfoo 4y ago
The problem is that even Microsoft with their infinite resources has to play catch up. They have to devote developer hours to removing Google-advantaging features instead of adding their own custom goodies. And even if said goodies take off
963.
by hakfoo 4y ago
But the core premise of the "American social contract" seems to be that the US remains the global arbiter and police. Does the US: * Have the moral standing to do this anymore? * Have the actual economic resources to do this forev
964.
by hakfoo 4y ago
I saw some people mentioning that since mail-away PCB houses are so cheap and competent, they'll draft stuff like mounting brackets in KiCAD and have them cut out of FR-4 or aluminized PCB stock. I'll admit to having done it with
965.
by hakfoo 4y ago
I suspect the lifecycle of a brand is different based on when products "commoditize". In "non-commodity" products, brands represented a proprietary offering. Think back when a Trinitron CRT TV or monitor commanded a pre
966.
by hakfoo 4y ago
I'm surprised how forward-thinking India is with their financial regulations. Working in a peripherally related field, I had to go down the rabbit-hole with their E-Mandate concepts and it seemed like a feature that prioritized user c
967.
by hakfoo 4y ago
By the same logic, you can't have record-low unemployment and rising poverty rates. Somehow we squared that particular circle. Like the unemployment rate and actual standard of living, obesity and food insecurity are loosely coupled b
968.
by hakfoo 4y ago
> For psychological health, people need to have the opportunity to be self reliant. Why does the noble level of "self reliance" always happen to be exactly where other people don't have to pay taxes directly to sustain oth
969.
by hakfoo 4y ago
Maybe they're just looking at a completely different audience/value proposition. A lot of the problems in finance, for ordinary "happy path" consumers-- are still begging for "faster horses" solutions. Not eve
970.
by hakfoo 4y ago
I went to buy some specific keyboard switches last night. Ended up using one of the myriad small random vendors that the industry is full of, clearly on a Shopify cart. The checkout process had a tip button. For physical goods that will
971.
by hakfoo 4y ago
For a 1995 era vision, you can make a reasoned case for MSN. The competition was not necessarily the Open Internet, it was AOL/Prodigy/Compuserve. The walled-garden platform did offer some benefits, particularly when you've
972.
by hakfoo 4y ago
It felt like there was a big wave of cheap Android tablets a few years back. Usually with sketchy brands (either no brand, brand not known for mobile devices, or resuscitated "Grandma's TV" brands), no long-term support, and
973.
by hakfoo 4y ago
The concept of expiring currency has been experimented with even in the era of paper notes. Alberta, for example, tried circulating banknote-analogues that required a stamp to be added every week to remain valid; the goal was to encourage p
974.
by hakfoo 4y ago
What might help the "actual movie" business would be to actually use exclusivity effectively. There's no real exclusivity to a cinema, because home video is too compelling. Even if it says "only in theatres" on the
975.
by hakfoo 4y ago
I always figured the endgame is to get the scalers into industries that scale well, and then build the non-scaling factors as peripherals. For example, I could imagine a hyper-scale firm selling exceptionally generic standardized clothes, o
976.
by hakfoo 4y ago
I wonder if some of it is a reaction to "growing out of" the narrow AVR ecosystem. When you have a billion options, it's neat to pick something percieved better "because I can" I have a project that uses the now-de
977.
by hakfoo 4y ago
The only reason WISPs are a meaningful market presence in urban markets is because we completely whiffed the opportunities to regulate internet service early on. We could have taken the Chattanooga approach (municipal broadband) and gone na
978.
by hakfoo 4y ago
Actually, it was originally called x86-64. The AMD64 branding came around about the time the chips were actually released. Back around 2002 or 2003, I sent away to AMD for a set of reference manuals, got back a nice five-volume set which s
979.
by hakfoo 4y ago
I think if you say to OS and software vendors "here are a bunch of toy cores, do something useful with them", it finally justifies a nudge towards smarter scheduling. With ordinary SMP, there's little reason not to just assi
980.
by hakfoo 4y ago
I wonder if the top-down mindset can provide some benefits for innovation. * State backing-- whether it's guaranteed markets or simply R&D on a government budget-- means innovators have a disruption-free space for work. There&#x27
981.
by hakfoo 4y ago
Some gateways offer a more decoupled concept-- you can have one API account, but set it up to route the transactions to different processor accounts based either on predefined rules or an API field during the individual transaction. The ni
982.
by hakfoo 4y ago
The particular segmentation is a questionable choice. Small enterprises are likely to have small IT/Security staff, and the most likely, therefore, to not notice something awry for a few days, at which point, vital log info has already
983.
by hakfoo 4y ago
I wonder if they just became terminally risk averse. The thing that made them big is pretty obvious: high-margin premium priced x86 CPUs, which is a position they were able to hold for decades due both to manufacturing excellence and being
984.
by hakfoo 4y ago
Why isn't it done as a pay-as-you-go deal with developers? Make the permit to break ground contingent on making arrangement to finance the road and utility build-outs? Arizona has been surprisingly forward thinking about tnis in recen
985.
by hakfoo 4y ago
Why would selling toys to kids be unprofitable? Since much of your market is actually parents, you're in a more secure place than a lot of other businesses: people are going to be more willing to pay for a trusted brand. There's
986.
by hakfoo 4y ago
It's interesting to see that particular segment of the "build and paint models" universe survive and thrive when you see contraction in a lot of other areas. I'm fond of model railways, and it's discarded lots of th
987.
by hakfoo 4y ago
I think part of it has to do with the workloads you're using. If you're using it as a disc replacement for, say, a 286/386, it comes from an era where disc performance was far worse, so the software is usually not going to hi
988.
by hakfoo 4y ago
I think there reaches a point where you outsource the problem to something like the XT-IDE Universal BIOS, which does more than what the name says. (It's also configurable for use as an option ROM for machines with normal IDE) I'
989.
by hakfoo 4y ago
I tried it out on an 8MHz V40 (think V20 with onboard peripherals), and it delivers five frames per second. Definitely as smooth if not smoother than Quake on a 486DX. (lest we forget that it was the Crysis of its era since hardware 3D ac
990.
by hakfoo 4y ago
I can recall playing it on a 10MHz 286 and having to shrink the window for good framerates.

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